Shortening product development cycles and fully customisable products pose major
challenges for production systems. These not only have to cope with an increased product …

Nowadays, production planning and control must cope with mass customization, increased
fluctuations in demand, and high competition pressures. Despite prevailing market risks …

In modern volatile and complex manufacturing environment, dynamic events such as new
job insertions and machine breakdowns may randomly occur at any time and different …

The great complexity of advanced manufacturing processes combined with the high
investment costs for manufacturing equipment makes the integration of maintenance …

The economic benefits for manufacturing companies will be influenced by how it handles
potential dynamic events and performs multi-objective real-time scheduling for existing …

Abstract The field of Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) offers multiple learning-
based approaches to solve well-known combinatorial optimization tasks such as Traveling …

Production flow is becoming increasingly complex since manufacturers must react quickly to
changing markets demands and diverse customer requirements. In order to ensure …

Smart manufacturing scheduling (SMS) requires a high degree of flexibility to successfully
cope with changes in operational decision level planning processes in today's production …

Remanufacturing includes disassembly and reassembly of used products to save natural
resources and reduce emissions. While assembly is widely understood in the field of …

The importance of sustainability in industry is dramatically rising in recent years. Controlling
machine states to achieve the best trade-off between production rate and energy demand is …